Lawsuit
FTC: Ring spied on customers
2023The FTC found Ring let employees and contractors watch customers' private videos and failed to secure them, resulting in a $5.8M settlement.
Individual
Andy Jassy
Co-founder of AWS, President & CEO
Joined Amazon in 1997 and founded Amazon Web Services, serving as its CEO from 2016 until becoming Amazon's President & CEO in July 2021; he also sits on the board. AWS is the division that operates the Rekognition facial-recognition service marketed to law enforcement.
On the record
Companies
Incidents in their orbit
Investigation
2,000+ police footage partnerships
2021Ring built partnerships with thousands of police and fire agencies to request residents' doorbell footage, turning private homes into a distributed surveillance network.
Investigation
Falsely matched 28 members of Congress
2018The ACLU showed Amazon's Rekognition falsely matched 28 members of Congress to mugshots — disproportionately people of color — while Amazon marketed it to police.
Ban / Halt
Police-use moratorium
2020Amid bias findings and protests, Amazon paused police use of Rekognition — a moratorium it later extended indefinitely.
- ↳Amazon pauses police use of Rekognition — Reuters, 2020